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A BIRTHDAY THREAD
Tmrw I turn 50. Why am I telling you? Because it’s a hard age to swallow.
It’s solidly middle-aged & middle-aged women are notoriously invisible.
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Tmrw I turn 50. Why am I telling you? Because it’s a hard age to swallow.
It’s solidly middle-aged & middle-aged women are notoriously invisible.
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In fact, a 2017 HBR article said it is nearly impossible for women to get credit for their ideas at work, a fact that frankly bugs me to death.
So to celebrate my half-century, I’m going to tell you my story...
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So to celebrate my half-century, I’m going to tell you my story...
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*I got a journalism degree but talked my way into a job as a Webmaster at 27, managing 18 grown-ups during the dot-com boom of the late 90s.
To be clear, I had no idea what I was doing but, so happens, I was damn good at it.
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To be clear, I had no idea what I was doing but, so happens, I was damn good at it.
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*19 years ago I was part of a small team that built #finserv’s first fully-automated omni-channel experience for a large bank -- years before the term “omni-channel” was a buzzy thing.
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*10 years ago I co-authored “The Future of Advice” which agitated for major digital investment in the wealth management space b/c consumer preferences were obvi changing, though most C-suite execs stayed willfully blind to that fact...
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... I was on record Robo was over-hyped & that connecting advisors to clients using digital touchpoints is where the future was.
It was a contrarian opinion at the time but I stuck to my guns b/c I knew history would prove me right.
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It was a contrarian opinion at the time but I stuck to my guns b/c I knew history would prove me right.
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*At 40, with a newborn, I went back to school for an MA in public policy b/c I was fascinated with the machinations of gov’t.
I dropped out before I finished but learned good governmenting is really hard work. (Election, anyone? #Vote
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I dropped out before I finished but learned good governmenting is really hard work. (Election, anyone? #Vote
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*3 years ago I started writing about the haptic memory of GenZ b/c of a single fortuitous conversation with a stranger at a #fintech conference.
I started blogging, created the hashtag #GenZDisruption & built a personal brand around it.
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I started blogging, created the hashtag #GenZDisruption & built a personal brand around it.
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So here I am, feeling both older & younger than I am, w/ one thing to say to whoever needs to hear it:
DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SHAKE OFF IMPOSTER SYNDROME.
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DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SHAKE OFF IMPOSTER SYNDROME.
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